1914 Lucky Bag Glossary

The 1914 Lucky Bag included a glossary of terms.

Amount Available: A negative quantity hindering your drawing your $3 per.
Anchor Man: Pud Leonard—our mainstay.
Anns: The game of the year—The Departments vs. the Classes.
Bat (verb): To score on a department, decisively, in a P-work, or exam.
Bat (noun): Differentiation between the N.E. and S.W. Wings;—4 companies.
Bilge (verb): To go on leave in February as a civilian, First Class, U. S. A.
Bilger: One who, once on the outside, doesn't know enough to stay there.
Bird: A Buzzard, a graduate of the Hinders.
Blood: Of the aristocracy; a Beau Brummel; one able to enter the Supt's house after chapel without being kicked out by the sentry—Angel.
Boat Officer: One who talks with ease; a conversationalist; Teasley; Hatch.
Bone: Actually to attempt to find out what the lesson's about.
Bones (n): Confidential chats with Doc MacDowell.
Brace (verb): To give a military bearing.
Brick (verb): To ask a guy to drag a "friend of a friend of yours."
Brick (noun): That "friend of a friend"—a 1.0.
B.S.: A form of Mexican Athletics most popular at the Naval Academy.
Bull: The magnetic material that made Smoke Hall famous.
Bust: To fail to score on a department.
Butt: The magnetic South pole of a skag; a fraction of anything.
Buzzard: A small, artistic and beautifying bird, captured by "Turkey Austin."
Calc: The Youngster's Nightmare.
Candidate: The poor unfortunate "chosen from many" to "represent your part of the country."
Chaney's Best: A Hack modeled after those of the ancient Saxons—built neither for speed nor comfort.
Christmas Tree: The bulletin, published along Christmas time, of those hitting the weak squad mentally.
Cit: A free, much-to-be-envied Human Being.
Cits: The clothes God intended men to wear.
Clean Sleeve: The 1st Classman fortunate enough to be eternally carefree—see Hinders.
Cold (adjective): Absolute, derived from its application to absolute temperature -461°F. Example: "I made a cold zip on that exam."
Com: The origin of all orders published.
Crab: One of the fairer sex of Crabtown.
Crabtown: A "group of buildings" constituting a town equal in population to that of Choptank, the "Rio de Janeiro" of Maryland.
Cross Country: Athletics for the "Westons."
Dago: A 4-year argument with Natives for a 2.5.
Day's Work: The Nav Department's favorite form of Saturday A.M. "entertainment."
Depanted: To be forced by the Prof. to put in a "req" for 1 pr. Blue Service Trousers.
Depantagraph: The height of diabolical engineering—an instrument designed to keep the Profs and their families well clothed.
Drag: Literally to cart along a femme.
Duty: A 24-hour trick at "Obedience and Fidelity"—Week days, a Godsend; Hop nights, Hell.
Exams: Monthly scrimmages with the Departments.
Femme: One of those "dainty, tripping mortals" that make our Hops the "best in the country."
4.0: A mark now obsolete—formerly given for knowing what the lesson was about.
Frap (verb): To hit; to perch; to adorn;—to find one's name on the "tree" or "pap."
French (verb): To "visit friends within the limits of Annapolis" via the wall.
Functions: The 200 odd candidates who start their cruise on the "Reina," early in May.
Fuss (verb): To drag a femme; to quit the Red Mikes.
Fusser (noun): A ladies' man.
Goat (noun): The god of the Hinders.
Gouge (verb): To violate Our Honor System.
Grade (noun): Result of a handful of d's—Extra duty for the plebes, no liberty for us.
Grease (verb): To try to slip one over your classmates for class standing.
Greaser (noun): One who asks the prof. for night P-Work in Nav.
Greyleg (noun): In the Service, a marine; at the Academy, the orderlies, drummers, etc.
Gyrene (noun): Obsolete at the Academy—but still attributed to us by the papers, authorities, etc.
Hinders (noun): The gange of clean sleevers who entertained us every night in Smoke Hall in their worship of "the great god Goat."
Hit (verb): To "bat"—to "frap."
Holy Joe (noun): The Chaplain.
Hop (noun): A fortnightly "spectacle" held in the gym for the benefit of the plebes and stags.
Hustlers (noun): The phantom N 2nds that make our Navy Teams so well known.
Johnny Gow (noun): An entree to Mechanisms.
Kaydet (noun): Our partners in misery on the Hudson.
Leave (noun): The one time a year you forget the Navy and become again a civilized human being.
Liberty (noun): To "visit the city of Annapolis and vicinity."
Log, The (noun): The "Life" of the Academy; "More than 1200 a week."
Masqueraders (noun): The two annual "shows"—our two chances to tell the profs what we think of them.
Math (noun): Something they heave at you plebe year, youngster year, 2nd Class year—in all forms, characters, shapes and devices.
May Pole (noun): Revise list of Mental Weak Squad.
Mess Hall (noun): Our "palatial" dining apartment.
Nav (noun): The "science" by which it is claimed Crabtown can be located.—Navigation.
Non-reg (noun): On not out for "stripes."
O.C. (noun): The Officer-in-Charge—for 24 hours a day, the fear of all 2nd Class Smokers, and of all other breakers of the "Regulations."
O.D.: The Officer-of-the-Day—A midshipman imitation of the O.C.
Pap (noun): Daily report of mid'n attached to the U.S.N.A. The cheering starter for the 15-hour day.
Plebe (noun): A passed candidate,—braced, cussed out, and ignored by the upper classmen—yet a midshipman of the Brigade.
P-rade (noun): The Brigade on the march.
Pred (noun): The guy whose place in here you're taking.
P-Work: Practical work. In Nav: a 24-hour "Day's Work." In other departments: fruit.
Polaris (noun): A "star" play of the Nav Department that is bound to give them the victory.
Queen (noun): The "girl back home"—a 4.0.
Rag (verb): To rag a guy; to catch him in the act; to rag a skag; to catch a smoke.
Rate (noun): The laws and customs by which one class governs others below it.
Ratey (noun): One who thinks he belongs to the class above his own.
Red Mike (noun): The freest man in the Academy—a scorner of the fairer sex.
Reg (noun): As per regulations.
Req (noun): Requisition—of which there are various forms, from permission to dine—to one for a pr. of skates.
Rhino (noun): A guy down on the world,—the Academy,—and himself.
Running: To interrogate a plebe on the "whichness of what."
Sat: To have a 2.5 and be able to look Tecumseh in the eye.
Savoir: One naturally savvy.
Savvy: One who can bat a 4.0 without saluting Tecumseh.
Semi-ans: The mid-year "game" with the departments.
Shower: The practical constant in Doyle's Laws.
Skag: A cigarette—Bull Durham, Pall Mall, or Benson and Hedges.
Skinny: Physics and Chemistry—so called from the founder of that department.
Smoke Hall: The 1st Classmen's "Club."
Spoon (verb): To shake hands with a plebe; to like.
Spuds: The "corner stone" of the Navy.
Squad: Weak Squad, Swimming Squad, etc., etc.—forms of Special Athletics.
Stag: One who hasn't courage to drag his femme to the hop.
Stag line: The critics of the hop.
Star: One making 85% multiple for the year.
Statement: An attempt to get out of some d's [demerits].
Steam: The 2nd Classman's stumbling block—boilers and engines.
St. Johnnies: The local collegians—the miniature West Pointers.
Straight Dope: Sure advice on the morrow's "market."
Stripes: Diagonal—class designators; horizontal—cadet officers.
"Sun": A word of endearment—the nickname for favorite profs.
Supe: The Superintendent of the Naval Academy—the last resort of the Midshipman outward bound.
Tecumseh: The wooden god whom all wooden men salute on the way to an exam.
Tendency: A draft in your room—fruit for a smoke.
The Dansant: A ragging party—with tea.
Touge: One who thinks "every hair on his head is a marline-spike."
Tree: The weekly report of those unsat.
2.50: Tecumseh's motto.
Unsat: One of the followers of Tecumseh temporarily out of luck.
Valentine: A "request" for your resignation.
Whip: A very small fraction of anything; as at breakfast table, "99 and a whip."
White House: The U.S.S. "Reina Mercedes"—the "Home for Convicts."
Wooden: Just naturally boneheaded—a copier of Tecumseh.
Yard Engine: A guy that will fuss a girl for a 2.5.
Youngster: A passed Plebe—the ratiest, most happy go lucky class in the Academy.
Zip: A zero—something handed us often and which we more often rate.